Plug-in collections:

Christof offers a number of Skencil plug-ins, like Graph,
Transform Script, Ptui Shell and Turtle Library. His "Text Plugin"
already made it into the mainline giving Skencil multiline
capabilities since 0.6.13.

Alphabetical list:

A bundle of useful plugin objects (arrow, cube, star, cylinder, ...),
inspired by the autoshapes that other famous applications have.
The objects are highly configurable by dragging the handles.
By Christof Ecker.

BuildImage by Terry Hancock is a build system for image
resources. It attempts to do for image resources what make does for
programs.

BuildImage addresses the common case where the image resources
are initially edited in a vector graphic program.

This is interesting for Free Software Developers or Artist who
want to get getting good image resources for programs ranging from
games to web applications or just want to script the repetitive
task of converting to bitmap for various uses.

A script from Pieter Edelman to interactively blend the color of
selected objects with a given color.

Last Change: 2003-01-03

Curve Text

A script to create Bezier-objects from font files. This is
particularly interesting if you want to use an unusual font for
e.g. titles or logos that is not yet installed for use with Skencil
or that you only have as a TrueType font.

This script is similar to the JapaneseText script below, but it
works for both TrueType and Type1 font files and it builds the list
of available fonts dynamically at run time. It borrows some code
from JapaneseText and requires the FreeType bindings from
JapaneseText.

Reimer Behrends has written a script to create fractal
structures as they occur in nature, such as rivers and
coastlines.

Last Change: 2002-07-17

GeoObject

A plug-in object and dialog that lets you import ArcView
shapefiles into Skencil. The objects created with this extension
retain some rudimentary information about their origin so that
objects read from different shapefiles that used the same
projection can be registered with each other.

Screen-shot of a map created with this plug-in,
using the
MapServer
demo data.

A script by Tamito KAJIYAMA for drawing Japanese characters. The
script reads outline data directly from Japanese TrueType fonts
using the FreeType library, and generates Bezier curve objects that
represent Japanese characters.

An experimental add-on script that makes it
possible to draw multilingual text using the functions of the
m17n library. Arabic, Hebrew,
Hindi, Thai and Chinese are a few examples of the languages and
scripts the m17n library supports. This
add-on substantially extends the number
of TrueType fonts that can be used in Skencil.
By KAJIYAMA Tamito.

Soren Henriksen has written two plugins to use LaTeX for
typesetting in Skencil.

One is a plugin object for text typeset with LaTeX. This one is
different from Christian von Ferber's script in that it provides a
new object type for LaTeX text and represents the typeset text as
Skencil text-objects instead of EPS files.

The other plugin is an export filter that writes an EPS and a
tex so that the LaTeX plugin text is set in TeX and the graphics is
in the EPS.

2002-04-03: The web-page is available again under a new
address.

2002-03-30: The web-page is down. For the time being, you can
get a
tarball with a version of the plugins from January 2002.

Last Change: 2002-04-03

Multiline Text

Create multiline text objects that can have multiple fonts and
colors. This is a plugin-object written by Christof Ecker and comes
with stable Skencil versions since 0.6.13.

PathStroke by Simon Budig traces the outline of bezier path
objects with a second path. This can be used to quickly draw a
bezier shape and then vary the line thickness locally to get more
"natural" effects.

Right now the resulting path might intersect itself when the
source path has very sharp curves, overlaps itself or has
edge-anchors. However, the resulting path might be used as a
starting point.

This
plugin allows to choose ICC-profiles, set render intents and
create a softproof of the current Skencil drawing based on these ICC-profiles.
So you can check how colour would like on an output device like a printer
(soft proof) using colour management.
For requirements (just ghostscript and Marti Marias littlecms), installation
and usage see the header of softproof.py
By Tobias Hilbricht.